Improvement in bottle-stopper fasteners



T. A. MQPARLAND. A Bottle-Stopper Fastener.

No, 214,511. Patented April 22. 1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEreEa THOMAS A. MCFARLAND, O F MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-STOPPER FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,511, dated April 22, 1879; application tiled September 24, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

A panying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, making part of this speciication, in which- Figure lis a side view, the mouth of the bottle being closed. Fig. 2 is a front view, the mouth of the bottle being closed. Fig. 3 is a side view, the mouth of the bottle being opened.

The nature of my invention consists in so constructing and arranging the mechanism in a bottle-stopper that the opening and closing of the mouth of the bottle shall be regulated by means of the action of a ball, as will be more fully hereinafter described.

The construction and operation of my invention are as follows:

A is the neck of the bottle, provided with the usual annular shoulder a.. B is a continuous wire, extending around the neck of the bottle and immediately under the shoulder a. A section, b, of this wire, on each side of the neck of the bottle, is twisted and extends a short distance up the neck of the bottle, terminating in loops b b. C is a bail, which extends over the top of the bott-1e, and is provided with hooks o c at each end. Bymeans of these hooks o c and the loops b b' the bail is pivoted to the wire E.

D is a ball, made of glass, porcelain, metal,

' or any other suitable material, and is constructed with a hole extending through its center, through which passes the bail C.

E is the bottle-stopper, andconsists of a conical-shaped plate, e, and a covered plug, el, the covering being rubber or any other suitable material. The conicalshaped plate c has a attened apex, e2, slightly hollowed out, in which rests the ball when in position to close the mouth of the bottle. e3 e3 are bent guidewires, secured to the plate e on each side of the ball D, and between which it travels in its movements. These guide-wires also inclose the bail C.

The operation is as follows: When the bottle is open, as shown in Fig. 3, the stopper hangs by means of the guide-wires e3 e3.. When itis desired to stop the bottle the stopper E is brought over, and the covered plug el is inserted in the mouth of the bottle. The ball D is then revolved up the face of the conicalshaped plate e until itrests in the hollow of the apex e2, which eftectually holds the stopper in position.

What I claim'as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

. Vl. In a bottle-stopper, the conical-shapedr 1 plate e, having hollow apex e2, covered plug el, and guide-wires c3 e3, the whole constructed and arranged to operate substantially as described.

2. In a bottle-stopper, the wire B, having loops b b', bail O, having hooks c c, and ball D, the Whole constructed and arranged to operate substantially as described.

3. In a bottle-stopper, the wire B, having loops b b', bail O, having hooks c c, ball D, conical-shaped plate c, having hollow apex e2, covered plug e1, and guide-wires e303, the whole constructed, combined, and arranged to operate substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name to this spec'ieation in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS ATKINSON MCFARLABD.

Witnesses: Y

GEO. S. GALLUM, J. E. MYERS. 

